Ali (Klaus et al.),
I am glad to see some 'innovation skepticism' voiced here. I would also add 'creativity skepticism' to the black (well, 50% grey) list. A couple of suggestions that come to mind (in associative order):
Edgerton, David (2006). The Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History since 1900 (London, GB: Profile)
Gunter, Pete A. Y. (1985). 'Creativity and Ecology', in Creativity in Art, Religion and Culture, ed. by Michael H. Mitias (Amsterdam: Rodopi), pp. 107–116
Jones, Steven E. (2006). Against Technology: From the Luddites to Neo-Luddism (London, GB: Routledge)
And finally, skipping quite a few steps, an example of a (the) conclusion to the 'inevitable progress':
Smart, John M. (2012). 'The Transcension Hypothesis: Sufficiently Advanced Civilizations Invariably Leave Our Universe, and Implications for METI and SETI', Acta Astronautica, 78, pp. 55–68
Some of my tangential musings on how one can think and deal with limitations of human expertise (with a citation from Klaus's work) and how it feels like in society can be found here:
https://www.academia.edu/26321020/Activist_Systems_Futuring_with_Living_Models
and here:
https://www.academia.edu/26069187/Field_Creativity_and_Post-Anthropocentrism
Hope this is useful (or amusing),
Stanislav
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